Blood Sports and Cherry Pie
Some Economics of Violence in the National Hockey League
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2770140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J C H Jones, Jason Jones (0000-0002-4140-0268, University of Victoria), D G Ferguson (University of Victoria), Kenneth G Stewart (0000-0002-7575-3264, University of Victoria) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-78 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1993.tb02742.x |
| OpenAlex | W1711438187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 3 |
The results are reported of empirically testing two hypotheses relating to violence in a professional team sport: one, that hockey fans have a taste for violence (bockey is a "blood sport") so that, in general, game attendance and violence in the National Hockey League are positively related; and two, more specifically, that the more extreme degrees of violence are positively associated with American, not Canadian, attendance. The data are game by game data for the 1983/84 season, violence is measured by various categories of penalty minutes (minors, majors, misconducts), and the model is a system of two reduced form equations. The results confirm that there is a significant and positive relationship between aggregate measures of violence (total penalty minutes) and attendance for games played in both American and Canadian cities; and there is a significant positive relationship between the more extreme forms of violence (proxied by majors and misconducts) and attendance only in American cities
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2023 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |